Game development startup Unity Technologies , founded in Copenhagen and currently headquartered in Silicon Valley, has raised a second round of financing – $12 million from Asian firms WestSummit Capital in China and iGlobe Partners in Singapore.

We know that Google+ is growing like a weed, with more than 10 million registered users (some say close to 20 million now). Experian Hitwise takes a stab at estimating the early growth of Google+.

Facebook is taking a social approach to getting local business owners to claim their Place, which is the first step to getting them to buy ads and improve  the content on these Pages.

This morning Google made an announcement of magical significance: the Harry Potter eBooks, which are being released for the first time this October, will be available via its Google Books platform.

Although you won’t find any Apple users who will admit it, Macs do occasionally crash and fail, sometimes in spectacular ways. In my experience, while they have far fewer visible errors, the ones that users end up seeing are more serious than the scattered Windows annoyances and driver issues. But by and large, recovery and error management haven’t needed to be among Apple’s marquee features.

Heyzap , the social discovery platform for mobile and online games, has been hard at work adding pieces to its mobile experience. The startup recently brought check-ins to its mobile platform, allowing users to check-in to their favorite games to share scores and achievements on Facebook and Twitter.

Google announced this morning that it will be shutting down Google Labs, a platform that allowed users to interact and give feedback on experimental products produced by Googlers in their 20 Percent Time . While many were left wondering, Google tells me that the company has no changes to announce with regards to the 20 Percent Time program; killing Labs doesn’t mean the discontinuation of the one day a week Googlers get to spend on “projects that aren’t necessarily in [their] job descriptions.” “We’ll continue to devote a subset of our time to newer and experiment projects,” Google representative Jason Friedenfelds tells me. Google has yet to respond to my inquiry about where all the 2o Percent Time projects will go after Labs’ shutdown, but it’s a good guess that a lot of those efforts will be refined and funneled into Google+.

The following is an excerpt. The complete article, available in our  Facebook Marketing Bible , includes a full walk-through of how to send invites for friends to Like your Page using the “Invite Friends” tool Facebook launched this week, as well as additional strategies for maximizing the conversion rate of the invites you send.

Now is your chance to get your question asked directly to the two Googlers who run the Google+ project. Product VP Bradley Horowitz and Senior VP of Social Vic Gundotra will be in our TCTV studios for an interview tomorrow on Andrew Keen’s show “ Keen On “.

eBay just posted strong second quarter earnings, reporting that revenue for quarter ended June 30, 2011, increased 25 percent to $2.8 billion, compared to the same period of 2010. Non-GAAP net income came in at $630.9 million, or $0.48 per diluted share. GAAP Net-income actually decreased in the quarter ($283.4 million, or $0.22 per diluted share), a 31 percent drop from the same quarter in 2010.